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Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me

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What am I? It shouldn’t be such a hard question, but it’s not something I’ve ever put much thought into, or how it shapes my identity and sense of belonging. I’ve always called myself a “hybrid,” although I’ve grown up in white culture,... Read more

Doing things for you makes me feel good but if off balance, it might push you away. The Ben Franklin Effect says that we come to like more those people for whom we do a favor. So we like people not based on the favors they do for... Read more

Affection: the spectrum of emotional vs physical This is the way that it usually works, when I want to express what I’m thinking: when it rains, it pours! So I want to talk about one more idea, Kelly’s idea of “constructs.” Constructs are interpretations that we have... Read more